4 April 2013

We are pleased to announce the Gluten-free Chef of the Year competition for 2013 has been launched at the Wessex Salon Culinaire.

The competition, now in its fourth year, is being run in association with the Institute of Hospitality and the Craft Guild of Chefs. The judging will be headed up by celebrity chef and our Food Ambassador Phil Vickery.

The competition is for professional cooks and catering college students to design a three course gluten-free meal for two people. Entrants’ menus must include at least two courses which include a gluten-free element which must be made from scratch on the day of the live cookoff by the three finalists in each group.

The live cookoff will take place at the Unilever Food Solutions Culinary Business Development Centre, Leatherhead in November 2013.

To read the full press release, visit our press office here.

For more information on the competition, please click here.

Entries from last year's competition can be found here and here.

We have already received press coverage on the Gluten-free Chef of the Year competition which can be seen below:

http://www.coeliac.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/gluten-free-chef-of-the-year-competition-final/up-and-coming-gluten-free-chef-of-the-year-competitio

Caterer, Licensee and Hotelier published a piece on their website - click here to read the piece.

In The Mix, the official blog from the Craft Guild of Chefs, also published a piece which you can read here.

Big Hospitality also published a piece which can be seen here.

Eat Out magazine published an article on the competition here and Cost Sector Catering ran a piece on their website here.